Schedule

Updated July 2, 2006.

A Weekend for Liberty & Justice for Women At St. Saviour’s Church, 41 Mt. Desert Street, Bar Harbor, Maine. Click here for a map.

Organizations being invited to co-sponsor the weekend: The ACLU, H.O.M.E., NOW, Sojourners, The Unitarian Universalist Church, WERU, and others. (Please see our Links page.)

Thursday, July 27, 2006

6:00 pm - Art Show Opens: Liberty and Justice for Women. You are invited to submit works of art in any medium. Please contact George Swanson for further information: 204-244-0579 or
george[at]katrinasdream[dot]org

7:00 pm - Poetry Reading & Open Mic: You are invited read a poem, sing a song, or share a thought.

Friday, July 28, 2006

7:00 p.m. - A Symposium on Liberty & Justice by the ”Philadelphia Eleven” and the ”Washington Four”. Their irregular and controversial ordinations as Episcopal priests in 1974 and 1975 broke the gender bar.

Saturday, July 29, 2006 The 32nd Anniversary of the Philadelphia Ordination in 1974

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Open Congress: Liberty & Justice for Women

Everyone is invited to propose ways to increase liberty and justice for women in America - and in the world. Action committees will be formed. Pot Luck Lunch.

Everyone can speak. Ideas will grow in a group of committed people. We may end up with — say — seven different proposals for action. All are accepted if anyone wants to do them. Who needs another organization where everyone has to ask headquarters? Can’t do that. No headquarters. Why should a majority veto someone’s idea? If two or three are gathered together in the name of Liberty and Justice - they can do what they think is right. If they need money for an idea, they can put their idea and request for money on the website - www.katrinasdream.org. Good people have said that since they do not have the time or energy to work on committees, they are prepared to give money to move America. So maybe money isn’t the issue.

Your idea, shaped & expanded by other like minded people, may bless future generations of American women, children and men.

So come, share your idea at the over-ambitious “Congress.” Come and help refine other folk’s ideas. And . . . if you can’t make July 29th, put your ideas on this Website, today maybe. That way people will benefit from your ideas, nourish them, and see them take root. You may be the person who makes the difference. Add your comment to the blog AND to the forum.

5:00 p.m. - Mass on the Feast of Saints Mary & Martha

6:00 p.m. - Pot Luck Buffet & Rehearsal of Ceremonial for the Funeral

7:00 p.m. - Rehearsal of Music for Katrina’s Funeral: Come and Sing!

8:00 p.m. - Concert & Open Mic: Share music & your memories of Katrina

Sunday, July 30, 2006

10:00 a.m. - The Rev. Merrill Bittner, the Rev. Alison Cheek, the Rev. Marie M. Fleisher, the Hon. Rev. Emily Hewitt, the Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward and the Rt. Rev. Chilton Knudsen will honor Katrina’s wish that at her funeral her sister priests and her bishop would stand together as equals at God’s altar. Reception.

Jesus said, “Let the dead bury the dead.” So we offer our prayer, our song, our liturgy for the whole world — for those of us who have come together, for our loved ones in this world and the next, for our enemies, for God’s cosmos. Sure, we ask God to receive Katrina, wipe the tears from her eyes, and welcome her home. But in a world where so many people die in battle, murder, and sudden death, often un–mourned, we pray for them. And we pray for all of us, the living, that somehow, when we have returned to God’s good earth, we will have moved the world a little closer to the complete liberty and justice that God has in mind for everyone.